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English Dictionary: inviolate by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
inviolate
adj
  1. (of a woman) having the hymen unbroken; "she was intact, virginal"
    Synonym(s): intact, inviolate
  2. must be kept sacred
    Synonym(s): inviolable, inviolate, sacrosanct
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Inviolate \In*vi"o*late\, Inviolated \In*vi"o*la`ted\, a. [L.
      inviolatus. See {In-} not, and {Violate}.]
      1. Not violated; uninjured; unhurt; unbroken.
  
                     His fortune of arms was still inviolate. --Bacon.
  
      2. Not corrupted, defiled, or profaned; chaste; pure.
            [bd]Inviolate truth.[b8] --Denham.
  
                     There chaste Alceste lives inviolate. --Spenser.
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